From Middle English, from Old French palais, which comes from LatinpalÄtium, from PalÄtium, in reference to the Palatine Hill, one of the seven hills of Rome, where the aristocracy of the Roman Republicâ€”and later, Roman emperorsâ€”built large, splendid residences. The name is ultimately either from Etruscan, the same source as Pales (â€œPales, the Italic goddess of shepherds, flocks and livestockâ€), or Latin palus (â€œstake; enclosureâ€).

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When as an American emissary I met him in September 1977 in his office in the Menelik Palace, I was struck at how much darker he was than his portrait on the wall behind him. The fact that he was more Negroid than the average Ethiopian highlander gave him an inferiority complex. Mengistu Haile Mariam